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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 16 June 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] carlitoscohones@mas.to 3 points 5 months ago

@carlitoscohones@awful.systems @mii

Sam Altman says instead of Universal Basic Income, there should be Universal Basic Compute, where everybody gets a slice of GPT-7's compute in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] carlitoscohones@mas.to 11 points 6 months ago

@200fifty @Amoeba_Girl "GPT-11 will be built entirely out of sound waves from the sustain" - Nigel Tufnel, probably

Honor Levy is the latest from Dimes Square. Truly breathtaking text production. in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] carlitoscohones@mas.to 6 points 6 months ago

@blakestacey "divine dubstep remixers" LOL.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 21 April 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] carlitoscohones@mas.to 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

@froztbyte @Eiim "ZA" is not a country abbreviation that many united statians know, at least from my anecdotal experience.

Elsevier keeps publishing articles written by spicy autocomplete in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] carlitoscohones@mas.to 4 points 7 months ago

@carlitoscohones@awful.systems @skillissuer image attached for the mastodon readers. I hadn't noticed that posts to the blog don't keep their links or image attachments when viewed on mastodon.

https://www.404media.co/horrific-ai-generated-breastfeeding-images-on-facebook-bypass-moderation/

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 17 March 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] carlitoscohones@mas.to 3 points 7 months ago

@drislands @Soyweiser I wonder what the error bars for self-reporting bias looked like.

Is the "g factor" just a rebranding of IQ, or is there any scientific basis for it? in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] carlitoscohones@mas.to 6 points 8 months ago

@gerikson

Korb is a tool
Carlito et al, 2024

"we have 700m people in our network. We think it's not unreasonable to at least get 50% more people as a result of personalization, culturalization, deeper, more immersive experiences." EA exec on AI in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] carlitoscohones@mas.to 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@froztbyte @dgerard

If every other measure is equal, and there are 30% more human fingers created, that means EA is 30% more efficient, by this measure. 13-fingered soccer players.

We started a charity to alleviate wild fish suffering. We spent $30k trying to contact fish farmers via email. This didn't work, so we gave up. We consider the project a success. in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] carlitoscohones@mas.to 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@dgerard @sneerclub

i can’t believe I read this whole article. They somewhat buried the lede with the paragraphs about emailing farmers twice and that was it. Apparently shoe leather and knocking on doors was not an option. They did also go to a conference and have coffee and pet cats though!

Rationalist org bets random substack poster $100K that he can't disprove their covid lab leak hypothesis, you'll never guess what happens next in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] carlitoscohones@mas.to 5 points 8 months ago

@elmtonic @titotal These tankie assholes.

worst tech/crypto songs of all time? in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] carlitoscohones@mas.to 6 points 8 months ago

@fasterandworse @pikesley My cats, my kids, some bacon!

somebody gave Thiel idea of methhead olympics in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] carlitoscohones@mas.to 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@gerikson @skillissuer In 6 months he's going to juice up and shave .6 seconds (3%) off his own personal best time in the 50M freestyle that he set 11 years ago.